Monday, June 11th 2012
AMD Readies Trio of New Radeon HD 7900 Series SKUs
Apart from a few Radeon HD 7970 "X2" dual-GPU graphics cards, and a few non-reference design HD 7970, we didn't hear much about new Radeon SKUs, at Computex. AMD or its partners never even talked about the Radeon HD 7990. It appears now, that the company is working on three new SKUs that will likely replace existing ones, in a bid to replenish the competitiveness of its "Southern Islands" GPU family. The three new SKUs include the Radeon HD 7990, of which we've been hearing for a greater part of this year; the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, which we knew was taking shape for some time now; and the new Radeon HD 7930.
Launch of the Radeon HD 7990 has been facing quite a few delays. We can't imagine technical hurdles with regard to board design, but the performance yield, and performance-per-Watt figures the SKU will have to produce, to ever make it to the market. The HD 7990 has the tough task of performing within an acceptable range of the GeForce GTX 690, on both these fronts.
The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition will be NVIDIA's bid to compete with the GTX 680, if merely lowering prices won't cut it for the HD 7970. AMD will raise the reference clock speeds for the HD 7970. Lastly, we're hearing of a new SKU, called HD 7930, codenamed "Tahiti LE". This SKU was first spotted when keen observers were poking around with driver information files. It's likely to be a cut-down 28 nm "Tahiti" GPU. It will be interesting to see how AMD prices it, seeing as how it's a tight squeeze between the HD 7870 GHz Edition and HD 7950.
According to a fresh 3DCenter.org report, launch of the HD 7990 is pushed all the way back to August (mid-Summer). The HD 7970 GHz Edition, if real, should be just around the corner, with a June launch predicted. The HD 7930, on the other hand, could be out after June, if the competition gets tough following launch of upper-mainstream NVIDIA SKUs.
Source:
3DCenter.org
Launch of the Radeon HD 7990 has been facing quite a few delays. We can't imagine technical hurdles with regard to board design, but the performance yield, and performance-per-Watt figures the SKU will have to produce, to ever make it to the market. The HD 7990 has the tough task of performing within an acceptable range of the GeForce GTX 690, on both these fronts.
According to a fresh 3DCenter.org report, launch of the HD 7990 is pushed all the way back to August (mid-Summer). The HD 7970 GHz Edition, if real, should be just around the corner, with a June launch predicted. The HD 7930, on the other hand, could be out after June, if the competition gets tough following launch of upper-mainstream NVIDIA SKUs.
64 Comments on AMD Readies Trio of New Radeon HD 7900 Series SKUs
you have better odds in steam meeting a filler card user than you do meeting someone from texas if you live in rhode island...
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20:14 UTC Jun 11, 2012
even to say 200k people is not a valid amount of people is retarded.
What I am discussing is if those cards should exist to begin with, and no they shouldn't (if this was a world friendly to consumers). I gave the example of the HD5830 above. It costed $100 more (66% more) than the HD5770 for a 10% increase in performance. The HD5850 costed around $50 more than the 5830 (20% more) for a 36% increase in performance.
So some people bought the HD5830, well they shouldn't, plain and simple and that's only proving my point. Of course they sell some units, that's the issue, following with the 5830 example, the issue is it sold to some people and those people got ripped off and the price of HD5850 stays very high and never comes down too much, because that small yet significant percent of people which would have become the driving force that would have pushed the HD5850 to $250, bought a much worse card at that price, instead of keeping their money until HD5850 was available at their desired price. They basically didn't exercise the most basic principle of free markets and fell for the trap.
Amd like nvidia and intel add naseum all need to sell all of what they make,, even the bits that binned oddly or in odd quantities or poorly, at least amd are giving this particular card a different name and not using one monicer for this and a better card, a tactic i dislike.;):p
What's the point of 7870 when 7850 is almost as good when over clocked?
If this 7930 cost less than HD7950 but can over clock and offer similar performance to HD7970 then it will be a good card for video card for those on a budget but who like to over clock.
Really unless it happens to be a 2ghz model i do not understand how this will help 7970s be any more competitive than the current overclocked models, anyone want to help me understand this?
Today AMD can get from TSMC the better gate efficiency so they can hit the designed 1Ghz clocks, while staying under their original 250TDP threshold and at probably a $70 lower price! "What AMD wanted TSMC can finally deliver?"
oh no i was wrong, it will consume less!